Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question -- never fully answered that evening -- will recur, along with related themes, over a 1988 Riesling, as the talk stretches into the early morning hours. The seven have seen little of one another since their graduation in 1956 from the Hittorf Gymnasium, a prep school in Recklinghausen (pop. 123,000), where the industrial Ruhr melds into the rich farmland of Westphalia. The reunion, prompted by the visit of a journalist classmate living in New York City, provides a perfect opportunity to catch up. Here with intensity, there with a curious lack of passion, their talk at Niehues' home in Recklinghausen...
...someone what this show was about, the chances are good that the answer will be a shrug. We examine the title. References to and images of straight lines do recur throughout the show. One actor tells us it takes four straight lines to play tic-tac-toe. Another says enormous straight lines, only visible from the air, were drawn on the ground in ancient times, possibly as runways for aliens. We learn language and letters have straight lines...